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Impact of Living or Working Environments on Persons with Disabilities

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  • Wei Liu

    (Statistics Division, ESCAP)

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This paper assesses quantitatively the importance of living or working environmental constraints in people's activity limitations in day-to-day work/school and participation restrictions (such as joining in community activities). It applies an Ordered Logit Model to examine data from a WHO/ESCAP pilot study in 2005. Age, school year, and country specific factors are considered in this empirical analysis, with particular attention to gender. Environmental barriers have a negative and statistically significant influence on a person's life activities, after controlling for other determinants. Women and girls with disabilities in developing countries face double discrimination due to their status as a woman and a person with disabilities. The challenges for policy makers in the region are to identify these working or living environmental constraints, to formulate more targeted disability policies and to implement programmes in order to mitigate those barriers. Some areas needing additional research are also highlighted.

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  • Wei Liu, 2007. "Impact of Living or Working Environments on Persons with Disabilities," MPDD Working Paper Series WP/07/03, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
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    1. Terence M. McMenamin & Stephen M. Miller & Anne E. Polivka, 2006. "Discussion and Presentation of the Disability Test Results from the Current Population Survey," Working Papers 396, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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    1. Mizunoya, Suguru & Mitra, Sophie, 2013. "Is There a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 28-43.
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      Keywords

      Disability; Ordered Logit Model; ICF; Gender; Environmental Constraints;
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      JEL classification:

      • C42 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Survey Methods
      • I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
      • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
      • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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